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    Allowing Corpsman to Become Nurses

    PMFB-RN replied to Asystole RN's topic in Government, Military

    *** Not only CLEP. The thousands of RNs today who went through Exelsior college got were they were by proving competence in
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    Refusing to dissect in A&P or Microbiology?

    PMFB-RN replied to joel.mercado's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    When I learned A&P (in the army, not at a college) we had cadavers, one per 4 students. We disected out all the organs nervous system, lymph system, bones and all. Highly
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    Refusing to dissect in A&P or Microbiology?

    PMFB-RN replied to joel.mercado's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    *** I hope you don't eat organic field crops, especialy rice! I esitemate several tens of thousands dead mammals, birds and anphibians per acre are killed to produce organic rice. Less with wheat,...
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    ADN or BSN. Advice.

    PMFB-RN replied to jnette2011's topic in General Students

    No difference in treatment beween ADN and BSN. Usually no difference in pay either. However it's all about getting that first job and if the hospitals in your area prefer the BSN then that is what you...
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    Squeamish Students?

    PMFB-RN replied to mofomeat's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    *** No that's not the case at all. It more a case of they don't arrive at medical school with social skills. You see while the rest of us are chasing girls (or boys as the case may be), attending...
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    What to do about refusing Dr. orders?

    PMFB-RN replied to nancynurse0828's topic in General Nursing

    *** Ya I too have been and am lucky enouh to work with similar physicians and there's nothing the nurses woulnd't do for them. Still doesn't mean I won't question their orders if needed. Once recieved...
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    What to do about refusing Dr. orders?

    PMFB-RN replied to nancynurse0828's topic in General Nursing

    *** Your docs obviouslt take their job as LEADER of the care team seriously and actually lead the other members like nurses, for them to inspire such devotion in the nurses. Nurses are kinda...
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    What to do about refusing Dr. orders?

    PMFB-RN replied to nancynurse0828's topic in General Nursing

    *** NS at 250 and hour would be a faster maitence IV rate, not a bolus at my hospital. We (the RRT) will run bags of NS with pressure bags or with the rapid infuser through EJ 20ga (usually placed by...
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    What to do about refusing Dr. orders?

    PMFB-RN replied to nancynurse0828's topic in General Nursing

    Nurses are NOT subordinate to physicians. We are a team who, along with some other members, has been put in place to deliver the care a patient needs. I recognize the physician is the team leader but...
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    What to do about refusing Dr. orders?

    PMFB-RN replied to nancynurse0828's topic in General Nursing

    Uh NO! We are not subordinate to physicians (excepting those nurses hired directly by physicians) and not only CAN we refuse orders when inpappropiate we have a DUTY to refuse them. A PICC nurse is...
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    Allowing Corpsman to Become Nurses

    PMFB-RN replied to Asystole RN's topic in Government, Military

    Crud, it erased my message. *** Don't you hate that? Short version: I was addressing the original concern about Obama wondering why corpsmen could not challenge the NCLEX-RN after returning from the...
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    Obamacare: Should I get out while I still can?

    PMFB-RN replied to TexasAbby's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    . *** While I disagree with you I completly understand your feelings. I too have been there. Your comments mirror mine almost exactly back when Bush and company were telling obvious lies to drum up...
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    Allowing Corpsman to Become Nurses

    PMFB-RN replied to Asystole RN's topic in Government, Military

    As a nursing community there is so much strife and whining about how we can all get to the same spot (nclex rn) in different ways, diploma/ASN/BSN. Can you imagine if we add in corpsmen being able to...
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    Allowing Corpsman to Become Nurses

    PMFB-RN replied to Asystole RN's topic in Government, Military

    If I should've known that would be true then that would make me a hypocrite. *** OK, maybe what I should have said is that most reasonable people would have expected........ If I don't think corpsman...
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    Allowing Corpsman to Become Nurses

    PMFB-RN replied to Asystole RN's topic in Government, Military

    Nurses are licensed at the state level, not the federal level. I don't see how Obama could make it easier for corpsmen and medics to become nurses. *** There is plenty he could do. The federal...
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    Allowing Corpsman to Become Nurses

    PMFB-RN replied to Asystole RN's topic in Government, Military

    There's no real irony. Obviously, I wasn't aware that I'd get to skip point A. *** Maybe you didn't know but you should have exceted that would be true. It is a waste of time and money to teach people...
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    Allowing Corpsman to Become Nurses

    PMFB-RN replied to Asystole RN's topic in Government, Military

    You obviously can't deal with any opinion other than, "The military risks their lives for us! Of course we should allow (fill in the blank with ANYTHING!)" *** Once again you chose to ignor what has...
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    I think I made a mistake

    PMFB-RN replied to RNikkiF's topic in General Nursing

    *** I see. In both hospital where I work DBP >100 is a trigger for RRT. The OP's PRN for hypertension was for a PO med when the standard of care would call for an IV antihypertenive thus my...
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    Obamacare: Should I get out while I still can?

    PMFB-RN replied to TexasAbby's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    The problem with your position is that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is a concervative law. Nothing but a shill to big business. It's nothing liberals would
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    I think I made a mistake

    PMFB-RN replied to RNikkiF's topic in General Nursing

    *** OK! I wsa under the impression we had gotten a blow by blow. You take care to specify it was a CNA who took the questionable BP but did not specify you checked. Seem an odd way to decribe the...
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    Allowing Corpsman to Become Nurses

    PMFB-RN replied to Asystole RN's topic in Government, Military

    Looks like the one whining here is you, right along with the paramedics I mentioned earlier. "I can do everything you can do, and do it better, but you get paid more. Wah." Talk about entitled. ***...
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    Squeamish Students?

    PMFB-RN replied to mofomeat's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    *** Clue them in that more than half of dioctors graduating are female and this has been true for some time. Also doctors tend to marry each other, not nurses. The other thing is that they will get to...
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    I think I made a mistake

    PMFB-RN replied to RNikkiF's topic in General Nursing

    Several things I don't get. If his HR was in the 130's why didn't you get an EKG to make sure he wasn't in a-fib or something else? Your patient had dangerously high BP of 200/115 and you didn't...
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    Obamacare: Should I get out while I still can?

    PMFB-RN replied to TexasAbby's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    *** The poor economy isn't responsible for the glut of nurses. The over supply of nurses was deliberatly brought about by those who stand to gain financialy from a glut of nurses. They used false and...
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    Allowing Corpsman to Become Nurses

    PMFB-RN replied to Asystole RN's topic in Government, Military